Problem adding new user...

[Guillou Erwan]

Le Mardi 08 Novembre 2005 23:02, Mike McCarty a écrit :
> Guillou Erwan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Once you have add the user account, did you check that /home/user was
> > really existing?
>
> Yes, and it does. From the man page:
>
> When invoked without the -D option, the useradd command creates a new
> user account using the values specified on the command line and the
> default values from the system. The new user account will be entered
> into the system files as needed, the home directory will be created,
> and initial files copied, depending on the command line options. The
> version provided with Red Hat Linux will create a group for each user
> added to the system, unless the -n option is given. The options which
>
> apply to the useradd command are:
> > Maybe you have to create it... usually I specify all options for this
> > useradd command to force shell, directory name, comment.
> >
> > Else, did you look in log files why login fails ?
> >
> > You can look in /var/log/secure or auth something name file.
> > You may find some explanation for the failure.
>
> I see nothing in /var/log/secure which indicates any sort of
> failure.
>
>  From /var/log/secure
>
> Nov  8 13:20:14 Presario-1 useradd[29532]: new user: name=freddy,
> uid=502, gid=500, home=/home/freddy, shell=/bin/bash
> Nov  8 13:31:38 Presario-1 useradd[29772]: new group: name=freddy, gid=502
> Nov  8 13:37:50 Presario-1 userdel[29904]: delete user `freddy'
> Nov  8 13:37:50 Presario-1 userdel[29904]: remove group `freddy'
>
> > Under root account you can also try su - user.
> > It should not ask for password but it will launch a login shell.
>
> It should indeed. But I don't want new users logging in as root
> in order to su to themselves!
I understand for the root account that you don't want any body to use it.
It was just to validate that login was working properly. If it works, it may 
comes from the password and not from the user account setting (shell, home 
directory)
>
> Mike
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